Fairy Dance

Fairy dance figures

Set of 6 in a line – 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 faces 2, 3 faces 4, 5 faces 6

Sticking:

During sticking sequance everything happens in 4’s

Basic sequance is bottom, top, bottom, top

First 4 beats:
1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 stick with each outher remaining stationary.

Next 4 beets:
immidiatly after beet 4 of previous:
Places 1 and 6 spin over there left shoulder
places 3 and 4 spin on the spot over there right shoulder
places 2 and 5 begin sticking, stricking bottom on beat 5

From here the positions have shifted towards the ends, 2 and 3 are now 1 and 2. 4 and 5 are now 5 and 6.
1 and 2, 5 and 6 continue sticking as in first 4 beets for the remaining 3 beats while symultaniuosly steping backwards opening a gap in the center of the line.
On beat 8 the new 3 and 4 clash top in the gap left in the sets center
3 and 4 immidiatly rotate right to clash on beat 9

Remaining 8 beats, sequance continues with the set shifting efery 4 beets. on beet 16 everyone is back where they started. on the final run through places 4 and 5 do not rotate and 1 and 6 don’t spin off.

Body swing

Positions go alternate ways at a tangent to the set with everyone stepping out 4 steps.
beet 5 rotate to face partner, 1,2 – 3,4 – 5,6 are partnered.
On beat 6 come into a body swing along the origional line of the set.
continue to beet 16

Sticking

Hey on the side

Positions go alternate ways at a tangent to the set with everyone stepping out 4 steps.
two sites hey, both are moving in the same direction not mirrored

Sticking

Gay stars

Positions go alternate ways at a tangent to the set with everyone stepping out 4 steps.
1 2 3, 4 5 6 perform two ‘gay stars’ – converge on origional line of set and dance around with sticks in, sticks held in the centre, while flapping left arm up and down.

Sticking

Final hey
All people hey in a line, continue untill ‘off’ is called.

Off

Hey continues but ends do not rotate in to continue the sequance. dance ends with two lines of 3 moving in opposite directions to eachouther.